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Shadmehr, Mehdi and Bernhardt, Dan (2019) Vanguards in revolution. Games and Economic Behavior, 115 . pp. 146-166. doi:10.1016/j.geb.2019.01.007
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geb.2019.01.007
Abstract
Revolutionary vanguards, their radicalism and coercive actions, and their interactions with ordinary citizens and the state are common threads in narratives of revolutionary movements. But what are the defining features of revolutionary vanguards? The literature is replete with terms that allude to some notion of a revolutionary vanguard (e.g., revolutionary entrepreneurs, entrepreneurs of violence, early-risers), but the essence of these conceptions and their implications for revolutionary process remain obscure. We identify and differentiate the two main notions of vanguards, the Leninist and “early-riser” notions, and develop a formal framework that captures their distinguishing features, deriving their implications for the likelihood of revolution. We then use this framework to study three related and overlooked topics: (a) state strategies in mitigating the vanguard's influence on citizens; (b) citizens' preferences for the degree of vanguard radicalism; and (c) the vanguards' use of coercion against citizens.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism J Political Science > JC Political theory |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Revolutions -- Mathematical models, Communism | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Games and Economic Behavior | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0899-8256 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | May 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 115 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 146-166 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.geb.2019.01.007 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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